Evening star. [volume], December 12, 1939, Page A-14, Image 14

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Feminine Bicycle Tourists
Recall French Mayors Kindly
TOURIST REFLECTION—Rhea Ehlers (left) and Juddie
Rhoades, travelers by bicycle and troop ship, look up from The
Star War Map Supplement from which they traced their bike
tour of Europe. —Star Staff Photo.
“We know every small-town mayor
in south France.”
It took the outbreak of a major
war to do It but that’s the exaggera
tion of Miss Rhea Ehlers and Miss
Georgia (Juddie) Rhoades, Govern
ment employes just back on the job
after a thrill-packed six months’
leave spent on the high seas and
astride bicycles.
The bicycles lapped up 3.000 miles
of Europe's highways and byways
in three months and eventually took
the girls to Bordeaux after the out
break of the war.
Refugees packed even the small
Village hotels in south France after
war was declared, and that’s how
the girls happened to become ac
quainted with so many mayors.
‘‘When we had trouble getting lodg
ing for the night,” Miss Ehlers said,
“we simjrty went to the mayors.
They always could find a way.” Most
of the nightly stops were made at
Youth Hotels, inexpensive lodges
established throughout Europe for
young hikers and bikers.
Miss Ehlers. who works with fig
ures in the Statistical Division of
the Tariff Commission, and Miss
Rhoades, who does secretarial work
in the land office of the Interior
Department, agreed that their bi
cycle togs gave them an appearance
conducive to sympathy.
They carried knapsacks weighing
about 30 pounds and containing a
few clothing changes, mostly addi
tional biking outfits. They did have
a street dress apiece but donned
them only twice in three months,
and "then we didn’t fare nearly as
well.” They made the entire trip
for about $500 each.
The girls didn’t have a bit * of
trouble getting out of the war zone.
They took the first French boat to
sail after war was declared, the
troop ship de La Salle. Nobody else
wanted to take it.
That is, nobody except a couple
of hundred refugees from Barce
lona and Czecho-Slovakia, and, as
Miss Ehlers put it, "it didn't make
any difference with them.”
Of course, there were 100 French
officers on board, the girls smilinglv
related, but they apparently didn't
want to make the voyage. Thev had
to.
The De La Salle, it seems, was
ordered to the West Indies, and if
she managed to get through waters
allegedly Infested with German sub
marines, otljer French craft would
give the run a try. The De La Salle
got through all right, Miss Rhoades
and Miss Ehlers, the only Americans
aboard, happily testified, but the
next two to make the effort, the
Louisianne and the Bretagne, were
sent to the ocean floor by torpedoes.
The Washington travelers said
they “tried 10 get scared something
would happen to the ship but we just
couldn’t become afraid.” The hun
dreds of refugees, representing scores
of courftries, kept a "marvelous
morale.” they said, and “we just
seemed to string along with them.”
“The French officers seemed plenty
jittery,” Miss Rhoades stated,
“but otherwise things were cheery
enough.”
The girls docked—with their bi
j ■■
cycles, purchased originally in Eng
land—at Martinique,' sailed a few
days later to Trinidad and thence
to Panama. They first figured on
bicycling through Central America
and Mexico but tales of bandits, bugs
and reptiles changed their minds.
Instead, they took a banana boat
to New Orleans and arrived there
October 22, five weeks out of Bor
deaux.
Agreeing they were lucky to get
home alive—or at all—Miss Rhodes
commented: “One of our best
breaks came when we missed getting
an American ship directly back to
the States. Think of what we would
have missed.”
The girls like adventure.
Among His Souvenirs
FORT WAYNE. Ind., Dec. 12 UP).
—Frank Williams, 51, after serving
a 41-day jail term for a minor of
fense, was about to go home.
Deputy Sheriff Robert Bledsoe
searched him and found a jail
owned towel, soap and spoon in his
pocket.
He sent Williams right back to a
cell, charged with petit larceny.
Jury Trial Granted
In Six-Hour Writ Case
The suit of James F. Donovan
against Maj. Ernest W. Brown, police
superintendent, and Detective Chief
Bernard W. Thompson for alleged
violation of the six-hour writ law
following Donovan’s arrest last
August will be heard before a Mu
nicipal Court jury on February 6,
1940.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Chester Gray, representing the de
fenedants, appeared In court yester
day and demanded a Jury trial. The
case wds transferred to the Jury
calendar on that date.
The plaintiff seeks to collect $500
from the police officials, alleging
that they failed to honor a copy of
a six-hour writ demanding that
Donovan either be released from
jail or specific charges be placed
against him. Donovan was picked
up by police for questioning in a
$227 restaurant holdup and held for
45 hours.
At a hearing on November 27,
Judge Nathan Cayton overruled a
motion by Mr. Gray to dismiss the
suit when it was revealed that an
unserved warrant, on file in the
United States marshal’s office, was
not produced on demand of Mr.
Donovan’s attorney, James J. Laugh
lin.
More Movie Plays
Many more movie play films will
be needed, it is claimed when tele
vision fully functions; thus enlarg
ing the field of the movie industry
rather than taking from it, as might
be thought. .
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first steam water pumps in America
were built in Philadelphia in 1801,
in Center Square, now City Hall
Square.
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